Dont know about anyone else, but I found it quite dissapointing. Perhaps round 2 in 23 days (correct me if I am wrong) will be much more impressive...
The end of the world
Sep 11, 2008
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Live webcams below are impressive:
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some more stuff here
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such as 0.00000000047 grams = total mass of protons circulating in the LHC at any time.
362 megajoules = collective energy of LHC's protons at top speed.
martin
Dumping the beam is a special problem in itself. The proton beam can melt a half ton of copper:
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In experiments, researchers found that an 86-microsecond exposure of the beam would bore a hole 40 meters into a block of copper:
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Mike Monett
low mass & big joules, lets you appreciate how fast they're going.
This is interesting:
US$4.1 billion = cost of building the LHC. US$4.5 billion = cost of the USS Ronald Regan.
Now which of these two do you consider worse waste of money?
I'll take colider anytime.
M
And the real webcams:
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Camera 4, at the LHC beam exit, is already offline :-)
Frank Buss, fb@frank-buss.de
http://www.frank-buss.de, http://www.it4-systems.de
Not there's your practical application, tunnel digging. A few seconds and you've got a perfectly straight intercontinental tunnel, never mind short ones like the british channel, that's what, hundred miliseconds? Just remember to turn it off on time.
M
Absolutely incredible.
An IEEE page you don't have to pay for.
martin
Probably due to low quality of the article. Read below:
"Next, the 0.2-millimeter proton beam passes through 10 dilution magnets, which cause the protons to fan out until the beam has thickened to a lower-intensity diameter of 1.5 mm. Now fattened to the width of a human hair, the ..."
1.5mm? Maybe on yeti, deffinitely not human. M
Saw that, almost wiki'd it, but resisted
martin
Let's hope so...
Perhaps an RCH?
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So, where does the material go to? Vapor? That'd be one helluva blast, to vaporize tons of copper in milliseconds.
Thanksl Rich
Tons? That's some really heavy copper then.
But the neocons salivate at the thought of the military killing machines and the death and havoc they can wreak on anyone who doesn't want to submit to their iron fist.
Thanks, Rich
Beard? ;-)
Cheers! Rich
Ever heard of a "shaped charge"?
Thanks, Rich
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